14. “As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these: a) Anything can happen to anyone. and b) It is best to be prepared.”
—Arundhati Roy, The God of Small ThingsSuggested by Alyssa P., via Facebook

22. “At the still point, there the dance is.”
—T. S. Eliot, “Four Quartets”Suggested by vkanicka

23. “Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
—Nicole Krauss, The History of LoveSuggested by Sam H., via Facebook

24. “In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.”
—Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne FrankSuggested by claires10

30. “She was lost in her longing to understand.”
—Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of CholeraSuggested by melibellel

31. “She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”
—Kate Chopin, “The Awakening”Suggested by Madeline M., via Facebook

32. “We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.”
—Tom Stoppard, Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are DeadSuggested by Liza

37. “Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.”
—L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green GablesSuggested by Stacy W., via Facebook

38. “I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
—Raymond Carver, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”Suggested by Savey S., via Facebook

45. “I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
—Khaled Hosseini, The Kite RunnerSuggested by Maria K., via Facebook

46. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
–F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great GatsbySuggested by carlyh3